Example sentences of "up in the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1978 fog at Heathrow airport prevented me from flying to referee the first ever game between France and Russia , and in 1981 a leg injury picked up in the First Test prevented me refereeing the Second Test between France and New Zealand . |
| 2 | ‘ My main aim will be to stay in the team and help Ipswich finish high up in the First Division . ’ |
| 3 | Raffle prizes were donated by Roy and Carl and raised more than £130 for the club which just missed out on an historic victory — being runner up in the first division of the Industries League for a second year . |
| 4 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 5 | But young couples are often surprised , even shocked , by the ferocity of the rows that can suddenly blow up in the first year or two of marriage . |
| 6 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 7 | More than a hundred Unionist MPs were usually away from the House on military service , and 125 Unionist agents served in the trenches ; the party organization was used in the war effort at no cost to the country ; every local party was decimated by volunteers who joined up in the first rush ; and at every level , the number who joined up was more than matched by those indirectly involved through recruiting , raising money , running war charities or breeding remounts . |
| 8 | Portadown piled them up in the first half . |
| 9 | A legally binding agreement to implement this 14-page political declaration was scheduled to be drawn up in the first half of 1992 . |
| 10 | Joey Beauchamp had enough chances to wrap the game up in the first half . |
| 11 | STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time . |
| 12 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 13 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 14 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 15 | Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place . ’ |
| 16 | She was being a bit of a weed and in any case I went to cheer her up in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | This should be followed by a separate section on how to set the system up in the first place and how to check that it is working properly . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's been a lot of talk about the £14 million funding for community care this year but the fact is £4 million of that went in setting the thing up in the first place and we 've only got £10 million left for the rest of the year , ’ said Coun Ron Kennedy . |
| 19 | When political conflicts rage , it is far harder to take on the awkward task of asking why this particular standard was set up in the first place . |
| 20 | Er what was your first idea of what you was gon na be when you grow up in the first place ? |
| 21 | A gene ca n't affect the wiring up of a brain unless there is a brain being wired up in the first place . |
| 22 | There wo n't be a brain being wired up in the first place , unless there is a complete developing embryo . |
| 23 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ How did you meet up in the first place ? |
| 25 | It was difficult to abandon the RPF precisely because de Gaulle had so compromised himself and his unique prestige by setting it up in the first place , by fighting elections , and by being a politician " like the others " . |
| 26 | Sorry , Charles , Chair , can we er , in noting the report , also is there some way in which we can , the Committee can convey its appreciation to the people who take on this , must be onerous responsibility er , er , and also can we congratulate the people who thought the scheme up in the first place . |
| 27 | But the basic , but the basic problem is the way it was set up in the first place , |
| 28 | Unfortunately , whether the contract drawn up in the first place has been a correct one or not , I 'm not sure . |
| 29 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 30 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |